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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi

Aid workers in Syria fear cholera spread if cross-border support halted

FILE PHOTO: Civil defense members talk to internally displaced Syrians during a cholera awareness campaign, at a camp in northern rebel-held Idlib, Syria September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Humanitarian workers operating in the last opposition-held part of Syria fear a cholera outbreak sweeping the region will deepen further if the United Nations is forced to stop aid deliveries across the border from Turkey.

The area's 4 million people live in dire conditions and rely heavily on the food and medicine that has been brought across the border since a 2014 U.N. Security Council resolution allowed such deliveries despite the Syrian government's objections.

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